I don't care about the politics either. It's the outrageous expenditures of taxpayer funds that have to be borrowed and/or printed to pay for these events that bothers me. Case in point, Montreal finally paid off their $1.5 billion debt for the 1976 Olympic Stadium in 2006 - 30 years!!
It takes many people 30 years to pay off their mortgage too. Probably not relevant to the topic...just sayin'.